The ninth annual edition of the Chicago Latino Film Festival, produced by Chicago Latino Cinema and Columbia College, runs from Friday, September 24, through Thursday, October 7. Film and video screenings will be held at Pipers Alley, 1608 N. Wells; at Facets Multimedia Center, 1517 W. Fullerton; at the University of Chicago’s Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th St.; at the University of Chicago’s Cobb Hall, 5811 S. Ellis; at Columbia College, 623 S. Wabash; at the Chicago Historical Society, Clark at North; at Northwestern University’s Norris Center, 1999 South Campus Drive, Evanston; at Northeastern Illinois University, 5500 N. Saint Louis; at Loyola University, 820 N. Michigan; at Roberto Clemente High School, 1147 N. Western; and on an outdoor video screen at the Spanish Coalition for Jobs, 2011 W. Pershing. Ticket prices per program (apart from opening night and free screenings) are $6; $4 for students, senior citizens, and disabled persons; and $3 for Chicago Latino Cinema members. Festival passes, good for all screenings except opening and closing nights, are $60, $40 for members. For more information call 431-1330.
The Ballad of Tina Juarez
Five U.S. shorts–Mario Castillo’s A Composition: Animated Soundtrack (1974), Garrick Wilkie’s The Tale of Father Miguel, Jorge Oliver’s Lucid, Geoffrey Sharp’s Dreams of Winning the Lottery, and Guillermina Zabala’s A Voice From the Edge–and one short from Colombia, Diego Garcia-Moreno’s Ballad of the Sea Unseen (1984). (Facets Multimedia, 3:00)
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Luis Avalo’s U.S. video about a little boy who runs away from home (1992). On the same program, two shorter videos: Carlos Nader’s Beijoqueiro: Portrait of a Serial Kisser (1992) from Brazil and Isaac Artenstein’s Son of Border Crisis (1990) from the U.S. (Facets Multimedia, 8:00)
The Southern Cross
